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Chicago examiner sunday Chicago december 18 1910 sunday re.dst.ered in c 8 patent oclce this edition consists of i news music z-^foreign i want ads s atjto b real estate 4 sports markets s citt liife financial society 9 magazine 6 editorial 10 comic drama price five ceni (_|| _ yly Chicago and vicinity fair sun _ ht^qk'tt * day cloudy monday not muc!i sff6 r f -* 1 change m temperature moderate jjm * variable winds /Â«>, average temperature yesterday 34 j}^lb normal tempc3aturc lor the day 9 vol xi no 25 a m desertion by strikers on increase many garment workers are discouraged by defeat of arbitration plan crowds in halls smaller only 6,000 employes now out says attorney for two clothiers associations nearly 400 of the striking garment work ers returned to work to-day nnd others hate notified their former employers that they arc willing to do so the members of the two associations of clothiers have 322,450 employes at work now many thou sands never joined the strike there are only about 6,000 still on strike these figures were given out last night by martin j isaacs attorney for the two associations and some of the strike leaders admit they are true although they will not i ttaj so publicly the reason given for the break m the strike is that great numbers of the strikers are discouraged because of the defeat of the arbitration plan offered by hart schaffner & marx the disgruntled strikers charge that so many of those on strike cannot read and write that the arbi tration plan could not be understood among the educated strikers the peace , terms were said to be acceptable hut they said they were afraid to say so at any of the meeting halls because of the in timidation practiced the desertions yes terday caused consternation among some of the strike leaders and they now fear that ihey will increase daily until the strike goes to pieces lack of interest m strike shown ijack of interest m the strike was shown at the various alls where the strikers meet there were much smaller crowds present and the strikers could be heard wbisjiering among themselves that tbis or ihat striker had gone back to work the strikers also feel that it was a big mistake to refuse to rote on the arbitration plan as it has turned public opinion against them to some extent they ay this was discovered yesterday while they were selling copies of ran evening ' paper to raise funds for the deslltise and to carry ou ihe strike few people would buy tin papers they said nobody seems to want to help us any more said a girl standing on clark street near madison of twenty girls and men selling ihe papers all said that the people turned aside when they offered the papers for sale and told for what the proceeds were to be used robert noreu business agent of the gar ment workers district council said he did not believe that any strikers had de serted no report has been made to me about the strikers going back to work he said every shop is picketed and none of the pickets ha\e reported any one deserting figures are withheld members of the wholesale clothiers as sociation and the national tailors associ ation assert that there are only 28,000 em ployed by them m the busy seasons hart schaffner & marx are said to employ 10,000 to 12,000 which would make nearly 40,000 engaged m the industry it is also said that 5,000 have returned to work for the firm but none of the members would give out any figures as the busy season for the special order tailoring trade is over the employes of those shops have been turned over to the ready-made part of the industry the busy season for which is now at its height while the strike leaders claim there are still 20,000 on strike the employers say that there are not more than 10,000 or 12,000 out samuel l landers plan to end the strike may bring about results he recom mended that the employers meet their own employes and talk over the grievances charged and try to find some basis of set tlement twelve employers were asked what they thought of the plan and they gave almost the sa-me answer which was m effect we have always been willing to meet our old employes they refused to talk for publication on the ground that it would not be advisable to do so until their old employes made re quests for cosiferences petition to mayor and chief owing to the failure to get a committee cf garment worker-s together no visit was paid to chief of police steward yesterday the meeting will be requested monday the labor leaders will then submit to the chief and also mayor b33sse a petition which is being circulated for signatures the subcommittee of the board of di rectors of the association of commerce continued its inquiry into the causes of the strike clara masilotti kebecca pol land and mrs sarah wolff explained the grievances of the garment workers a committee of cutters met the subcommit tee iv the afteruoou the strike bound employers aie expected ro be called be fore the committee monday or tuesday so far the committee is said to have found many divergent statements but comment upon them has been refused just what the hoard of directors will do with the information they are gathering is not yet determined the board will consider the information gained from all angles and if any purjiic good can be subserved it will issue a statement of its iiuuiu strikers fight among selves the strike will be considered by the Chicago federation of labor to-day while a large number of delegates threatened yes mrs c p Taft women to erect rival statues 100,000 each mrs c p Taft wants barnard to make lincoln memorial mrs alms chooses borglum cincinnati 0 dec 17 two statues of abraham lincoln one made by gut son borglum the english sculptor and one by george grey barnard the amer ican are to be built iv cincinnati each costing approximately 100,000 barnard announced to-day before he sailed for france that he has secured the backing of the lincoln memorial com mission of cincinnati and has a contract for this work gutzou borglum came to cincinnati to day and says he will build one and be paid by mrs frederick alms the whole matter rests with the 3*efusal of the com mission to name borglum mrs alms an nounced a year ago that she would give 1100,000 for a monument and left the mat ter of choosing the sculptor to a commis sion the men among whom are charles p Taft chose barnard then mrs alms said she did not want barnard but the con tract had been closed forthwith she asked borglum to come and close a contract mrs charles p Taft has said that if mrs alms does not care to stand by her argeement she will pay for the monument and has signed a contract with barnard to this effect homesick student weds wires for fiancee m california to continue studies ann arbor mich dec 17 walter c adams a michigan university fresh man from lodi cal got homesick so far from home recently he telegraphed miss grace pool also of lodi come at once miss pool did she arrived yesterday and adams had a marriage license waiting to-day he introduced his wife to his friends he will fiui*h the entire four years course at the university phonograph at funeral lexington ky dec 17.â€”phono graphic music supplanted singers at the funeral here to-day of mrs byron mc clelland widow of a widely known turf man and one of the wealthiest women m the south when near death mrs me clelland beard phonographic reproductions of sacred music by a quartet of noted singers and she requested that the ma chine be used at her funeral lord decies sails visits goulds jan 15 date of wedding guarded englishman coyly discusses i romance with miss vivien as he sips champagne new tork dec 17 1 sail to-night on the mauretania to teturn again on the loth of january the date for the wed ding that will all depend upon the er weather thus spoke lord decies to-day when during an interview that preceded his lordship's luncheon at sherry's he dis cussed his engagement to miss vivien gould this was a strenuous day for his lordship during the late forenoon he was paying oue of his farewell visits to the future lady decies then a rush to the drexel home at 1015 fifth avenue and from there to sherry's at 5 p m he started for the cunard line pier where seteral friends were gathered to bid him bon voyage although the engagement of lord decies and miss vivien gould the second daugh ter of george j gould was announced m a london newspaper a few days ago the interview of lord decies to-day was the first official statement given pertaining to the coming marriage coy about love affair the englishman was real coy about his love affair and when asked point blank to deny or affirm that he is to marry miss gould simply blushed and turned the con versation he is a tall well-built man with an air of culture genteel breeding and manliness even though as an officer m the british army he has gone through three cam paigns he seems as sprightly as a youth of twenty-five the dance and party scheduled for janu ary 19 at which mrs gonld probably in tended making the formal announcement of the engagement of her daughter vivien probably will take place he said but i see i am telling you things and i am as a gentleman and a true lover under the pledge of secrecy you must be content with just the announcement from me that i return on january 15 says rumor is amusing why should your newspapers and your hundreds of jolly people make so much of a poor british lord tour country is so vast your wealth so great and your men of culture so numerous that for mc just because i am here and rumor makes me the accepted of a daughter of one of the families of the american aristocracy is well â€” simply amusing to me â€¢â– â– â– â– i am nothing when placed beside some of the gentlemen i have met here i am one of a large set m england and my little trip to this country and if thc ru mors are correct â€” my engagement to miss gould should not make me the talk of the entire country i cannot see why american people and the american press cannot rest content with waiting for the official announcement of my engagement why do they persist you say it was the announcement m that london paper i want to say one word about that i cannot understand how that was published i wish to make no comment on it other than that i know not who was responsible tell your readers the entire story of my romance i will have to call for more champagne first did i sometimes tell the children of my experiences m the army perhaps you say you hare heard of my hardships m somaliland in the fighting of mad mullah m the long struggle m south africa perhaps i know stories of ad ventures that during these stirring days would befall aa officer m a regiment of hussars visit m january to be short it may hare been that sometimes i told miss vivien of my adventurous times but i must remind you that the fifth bottle of champagne has not as yet appeared and i refuse to tell of the romantic side of my . life , when i return m january the stay will . be only for a short time england will see me soon afterward but i hope the press of the country will treat me m as fair a . manner then as now i like america and second to my own country â€” which is the mother country to this great action l would like nothing better than to live here , lord decies is now lieutenant colonel m the seventh hussars he is a member of the distinguished service order and well liked m the army his full name is john graham hope horsley beresford fifth baron decies london gets velasquez famous portrait of philip iv of spain is bought for 400,000 london dec 17 the long lost equestrian portrait of philip iv of spain by velasquez which was recently dis covered at the duke of parma's residence at sch war zau austria is now m this city the agnews who bought it for 400,000 from the duke of parma claim and em inent experts confirm their claim that it is the original of the portrait m the dur wich gallery which has long been cata logued as a velasquez although some ex perts were of opinion that it was a copy by delmazo n y official is missing new york dec 17 n0 information co3tld be obtained at the office of city chamberlain hyde to-day as to bis where abouts all that could be learned was that he had left the city monday or tuesday either for Chicago on official business or for a duck shooting outing in the south at the offices of the legislative investi gating committee it was stated that no subpoena had been issued for hyde but the committee was still hopeful that he would voluntarily come forward and tes tify concerniug the handling of the 500 000 race track fund girl slain in street mob hunts assassin lynching is threatened ' mysterious beauty shot near aurora prominent man who left family suspected aurora lu dec 17.-a posse of ! farmers is m pursuit of w h mon*is a ' pi'omlnent piano man the alleged murderer of miss stella dumas twenty-four years old who was shot lo death m the maiu street of montgomery a subui-b of aurora to-night the murderer fled across country and is said to be hiding near riverview park two miles south of aurora threats of lynching are heard and the police of aurora are making every effort to arrest the murderer before the posse reaches him residents of montgomery were startled by three shots and a woman's scream shortly after r o'clock mayor nelson of the town and others rushed to their doors m time to see a man running across country towards riverview park the body of miss dumas fashionably gowned and bedecked with jewels was found lying face downward at the side of the street car tracks m the middle of the road she had been shot three times one bullet entering her forehead and the two others her chest morris infatuated with girl the police of aurora were notified of the murder and m the meantime a posse of farmers set out m search of the mur derer morris disappeared from his home more than a iweek ago leaving a wife and two children he was traced to aurora where the police learned to-day that he had be come infatuated with miss dumas a hand some young woman the police of aurora this morning set out m search of morris and the girl but they could not be located late this even ing it was learned however that they were at the riverview hotel m mont gomery the police were ready to start for montgomery when they were notified of the murder of the girl 150 check m girl's pocketbook miss dumas is said to have met morris when b.e was on a business trip to aurora daily visits from his home m piano to aurora could not be explained by his wife or business associates until this morn ing when it was lea3*ned of his infatuation for miss dumas it is believed that she jilted him to-night cairsing him to shoot her the police found a check for 150 1 m the murdered girl's pocketbook the oheck was made out by morris to miss dumas and is payable at the piano state bank the girl irho was slain was a person of mystery she claimed to friends to be a lineal descendant of alexander dumas the great french author but whence she came or where her parents lived if thy are alive she never revealed from ; papers found the police bellere she ured i at one0 ne time at pontiac j the murdered girl was a striking type of dark beauty and was always exquislte i ly gowned princess is buying gifts kaiser's only daughter does first christmas shopping alone special cable to the examiner berlin dec 17 princess victoria louise emperor william's only daughter is buying christmas gifts on her own ac count for the first time but the satisfac tion of choosing independently what she shall give is partly offset by the annoy ance of being pursued on her shopping tours by curious 03-owds at first she went to the stores without male escort but she found everybody iv berlin knows ber by sight and shoppers thrust upon her em barrassing attention and admiration so now her big brother eitel accompanies her to the christmas stores briton sought in u s new york dec 17 the police of this city have been asked to assist m the world search for the missing lieutenant frederick hesketh the son of sir thomas and lady fermer-llesketh of rufford hall lancashii-c england the son has been n*issing since october when he was seen at kingston ireland sir thomas married the daughter of the late seuator sharon of nevada the missing son mar ried miss florence breckenridge of ken tucky a few weeks before he disap peared a son was born to them g a r leader promoted rockford 111 dec 17.-j l ben nett of Chicago has been appointed by commander conley of the Illinois depart ment g a r as adjutant general to succeed the late c a partridge of chi cago judge finds meanest man new yohk dec 17 john lloyd was characterized as the meanest man m new york by magistrate krotel to-day lloj'd was accused by his wife of selling her only pair of shoes to buy a bucket of beer four are killed in wild west holdup by americans in london burglars fire on bluecoats m houns ditch attack interrupting raid on shop flee unharmed special cable to the examiner london dec 17 three policemen and oue unknown mau arc dead as the re sult of last nights attack by the police ov a gang of burglars engaged m tunnel ing from a neighboring house into a jew elry shop m houndsditch svhere they ex pected to reach booty valued at jloo.ooo the unknown dead man was found m a whitechapel bake shop to which he had been hurriedly conve.ved m a carriage shortly after the shootiug affray he is said by the police to have been one of the gang who shot down the three policemen se*v eral men and one woman found iv the bake shop m which the man died hate been arrested charged with complicity m the plot to rob the jewelry shop thc criminals are believed to be ameri cans and unerring gunplay was , never demonstrated better upou the plains of texas hounsditch is peopled largely by foreign ers with a number of luuerican residents shortly after midnight the community about the exchange building was ai'oused by a fusillade of shots and loud cries late pedestrians were astonished to see a battle raging about the exchange build ing bullets were rattliug like hailstones and the darkness of the night was punc tuated by brilliant flashes the officers discovered several men m the building shortly after midnight on ac i count of their numbers the police waited i for assistance and finally five of them en , tered the burglars started to shoot de spite the darkness their aim was deadly . and every one of the policeman was wounded one of the officers died m ; stantly the bm-glars fled and apparently all escaped injury each one had two pistols Chicago students airmen members of harvard aeronautical club boost aviation meet cambridge mass dec 17 aviation has been given a big boost at harvard through the perfecting of plans for the first college flying meet m history colum bia university will oppose the crimson next spring m a series of contests with gliders among the members of the harvard aeronautical society who have had much ito do with its success are william a dennis 11 Chicago heyliger dewindt 12 winnetka john weare harvard law school of Chicago and a e mauhcimer harvard law school of Chicago the tej*keted treasury of the society has recovered and the student aviators have secured new machines their roe triplane oought from the english aviator at the boston meet may be sent aloft during the coming meet eddy guards protected electric light and heat for watchers at science leader's bier boston mass dec 17 â€” zero weather m mt auburn cemetery m cambridge has no terrors for the four guardsmen vrtia are watching over the remains of mary baker eddy founder of christian science in the receiving tomb at the cemetery electric lights have been installed to gether with two large electric heaters thereby doing away with smoke or gas fumes two cots are also installed m the room or vault back of which the body rests the men take turns at sleeping and watching and also in going out to their meals beat shooting freshman minnesota students use straps on militant hazing victim minneapolis minn dec 17.â€”indig nant because a previous attempt at haziug resulted m the proposed victim drawing a revolver and firing shots enough over the heads of the crowd to scare its members away a dozen or more upper classmeu of the school of agriculture of the university late yesterday captured r w johnston 1869 selby avenue st paul m a corridor dragged him to the locker room and gave him a sound thrashing with bauds and straps johnston who is a freshman had defied the mandates of the upper classmen count szechenyi is shot cousin of gladys vanderbilt's hus band hunting victim special cable to the examiner vienna dec 17 count geza szechen yi first cousin of count i.aszio szechenyi who married gladys vauderbilt was ac cidentally shot while hunting on the estate of his brother count victor at surpen tele yesterday count lcdebur-wicheln count victor's brother-in-law one of the hunting party fired at a deer the load of small shot struck count geza whose condition is al most hopeless he is forty years of age and has three children dance to aid suffrage new york dee 17 music and danc ing became effective weapons of woman suffrage to-night when the political equality association headed by mrs o h p bel mont began its series of free dancing les sons and concerts to the shop girls and clerks of the east side about 500 per sons were m the club i-oonis when the en tertainment began a spirit of pure democ racy prevailed a number of society women serving as dancing teachers wins 435,000 at monaco special cable to the examiner monte carlo dec 17.-w darnbor ough au american m an attempt to bleak the bank has wou during the la*t week 485,000 at roulette biarritz dec 17 ex-vice president levi p morton is still here his health is excellent he goes out autoinobillug dally Illinois guard chief presses bill in both houses of congress providing 12,000,000 yearly appropriation for increasing the war footing of the country economically washington dec 17 â€” regarding rumor of his proposed resigna tion maid to have been published in new york secretary dickinson to-day said : such reports are absurd i have no idea of resigning washington dec 17 general edward c young of Chicago commanding jhe Illinois national guard is ln washington tak ing advantage of the war scare caused by the withdrawn report ot secretary dickinson to try to push through congress the new bill to increase the efficiency of the militia by giving the men part pay from the national treasury the enactment of the bill he claims will practically double the strength of the regular army and as chairman ot the executive committee of the national guard association he speaks for the militia of the whole country at a cost of 100 per man per year general young says the govern iment will have at its disposal at the breaking out of any war a national guard of 120,000 men ready to take the field and of twice the efficiency of the present state troops the bill he advocates proposes that the government pay the enlisted men of the national guard 2u per cent of what they would draw if they yere regular troops that the line officers be paid 15 per cent of what the regular officers of the same grades get with the exception of captains who are to get 20 per cent of the regulars pay and to give general officers and the men of their staff 5 per cent of the pay of reg ulars increase the duty to earn their money the enlisted men will have to attend forty-eight drills a year and officers must perform 75 per cent of their military duties the bill is pending ln both the house and the sedate the cost to the govern ment if it is passed will be about f4,g00 000 for the first year and the maximum cost after the state forces have been fully recruited is estimated at not to exceed 8,000,000 a year the government already gives 4,000,000 a year for arming and equipping the national guard so the pro posed cost for the 120,000 meu would not a exceed 12,000,000 a year the national guard bus gone as far n.jau it can with state aid alone said lioneij^b young and to make lt more efficient l men must be paid tor the loss of til the est ra work reouired would entai^^^b hem what we ask would dol lerijcieucy of the militia aua_j m \ best known fire fan robert edgecomb dead wealthy real estate dealer who bunked out every time a box struck in pneumonia victim chicago's foremost fire fan robert.edge comb is dead for many years he was one of the regulars who nightly gath ered at the quarters of hook and ladder company no li washington boulevard and clinton street and spun yarns and discussed the day's events between alarms of flre when a box struck m he always bunked out on it and notwithstanding his large size for he weighed it is said 373 pounds he was usuully one of the flrst to reach the tire recently mr edgecomb conti-acted pneu monia thursday evening he died and grief prevails m the fire department his dying request was that uniformed firemen be selected as his pallbearers he asked to be remembered to the boys his real estate holdings ou the west side ai-e said to be valued at almost half a million dollars burial will be m buffalo filibuster craft ready new orleans la dec 17.â€”boni la's agents are here fitting oul the con verted cruiser hornet for a filibustering expedition to honduras it sails monday continued on 4th pÂ«.ge 3d column gen young asks 0 s pay for militia to dooole fighting force noted military men agreed on present defenselessness of il s j -â€” v general wood's views r^â€”mmjaawat â– ' iâ€”ul^a 4 hpf 9 it is impossible to obtain a large wb '"' stock of war supplies on short notice bpjjjfc -&$? m and the time to act is now the gov m&s '- " : '*â– %_â– ernment should be enabled to purchase b 5 at once all supplies necessary to insure i gs_i?l t l that an y emergency may be met ' mam ftpli promptly and effectively he favors a ** ffis national council of defense as recom â– ^ s p-**-^-:^q !__ 3 y mended by representative hobson and jtbtfptycÃŸftg says that the united states should not â€” mn^u/rtfnizrs be behind any other government m pre general wood . paring for war s , . â– â– :*\ general grant says / fjjk w^*mmwk i our country is not prepared for war we need 1,000,000 men to de i k \ ien -- our coasts we need a larger â– 1 n standing army in case of war we syp fl would have to draft 600,000 men to de f *"**' mm "* en '** t " ae coasts > and properly to equip s jam them would take weeks the whole [ equipment would have to be rushed j^feyj^^^niÃŸ and it could not be done m time to â€” check the advance of the enemy this ,â€” s_Â£_sl is the situation we must consider and general grant ' there is no dodging it .\ â€” - â€” _. general chaffee says fh m "^Â° nat on on?ers more numerous ww :^ ' t-hi opportunities for invasion by a foreign nation than does the united states aw mwrn Â® ur mobile army is so ridiculously gy small m the world's war game that it by y_g b amounts to nothing better than a dis till 1 h card coast defenses are all iis-rht but pÃŸ^^gll when an enemy attempts to invade the 1 united states nothing short of mobile l**j_3 mfj armies can prevent the enemy's occupa 1 * r^rf _. -.*.' i7\v t o n Â°^ **** nes o supply and the quick ' c 3 \ capitulation of any city of first rank general chaffee plus its fortified places q3 h^g when roomers at mary mcseeker's move out she never sits down m a corner to pout ; she's right m the race and she knows how to win â€” an examiner ad makes more roomers move m used for rbsiil-ts the irafli^^paitttfler wants t thit you irast enter the Chicago examiner's great word picture contest 5,000-00 m prizes see page 5 of the real estate section â– â€” =- start to-day ===

Chicago examiner sunday Chicago december 18 1910 sunday re.dst.ered in c 8 patent oclce this edition consists of i news music z-^foreign i want ads s atjto b real estate 4 sports markets s citt liife financial society 9 magazine 6 editorial 10 comic drama price five ceni (_|| _ yly Chicago and vicinity fair sun _ ht^qk'tt * day cloudy monday not muc!i sff6 r f -* 1 change m temperature moderate jjm * variable winds /Â«>, average temperature yesterday 34 j}^lb normal tempc3aturc lor the day 9 vol xi no 25 a m desertion by strikers on increase many garment workers are discouraged by defeat of arbitration plan crowds in halls smaller only 6,000 employes now out says attorney for two clothiers associations nearly 400 of the striking garment work ers returned to work to-day nnd others hate notified their former employers that they arc willing to do so the members of the two associations of clothiers have 322,450 employes at work now many thou sands never joined the strike there are only about 6,000 still on strike these figures were given out last night by martin j isaacs attorney for the two associations and some of the strike leaders admit they are true although they will not i ttaj so publicly the reason given for the break m the strike is that great numbers of the strikers are discouraged because of the defeat of the arbitration plan offered by hart schaffner & marx the disgruntled strikers charge that so many of those on strike cannot read and write that the arbi tration plan could not be understood among the educated strikers the peace , terms were said to be acceptable hut they said they were afraid to say so at any of the meeting halls because of the in timidation practiced the desertions yes terday caused consternation among some of the strike leaders and they now fear that ihey will increase daily until the strike goes to pieces lack of interest m strike shown ijack of interest m the strike was shown at the various alls where the strikers meet there were much smaller crowds present and the strikers could be heard wbisjiering among themselves that tbis or ihat striker had gone back to work the strikers also feel that it was a big mistake to refuse to rote on the arbitration plan as it has turned public opinion against them to some extent they ay this was discovered yesterday while they were selling copies of ran evening ' paper to raise funds for the deslltise and to carry ou ihe strike few people would buy tin papers they said nobody seems to want to help us any more said a girl standing on clark street near madison of twenty girls and men selling ihe papers all said that the people turned aside when they offered the papers for sale and told for what the proceeds were to be used robert noreu business agent of the gar ment workers district council said he did not believe that any strikers had de serted no report has been made to me about the strikers going back to work he said every shop is picketed and none of the pickets ha\e reported any one deserting figures are withheld members of the wholesale clothiers as sociation and the national tailors associ ation assert that there are only 28,000 em ployed by them m the busy seasons hart schaffner & marx are said to employ 10,000 to 12,000 which would make nearly 40,000 engaged m the industry it is also said that 5,000 have returned to work for the firm but none of the members would give out any figures as the busy season for the special order tailoring trade is over the employes of those shops have been turned over to the ready-made part of the industry the busy season for which is now at its height while the strike leaders claim there are still 20,000 on strike the employers say that there are not more than 10,000 or 12,000 out samuel l landers plan to end the strike may bring about results he recom mended that the employers meet their own employes and talk over the grievances charged and try to find some basis of set tlement twelve employers were asked what they thought of the plan and they gave almost the sa-me answer which was m effect we have always been willing to meet our old employes they refused to talk for publication on the ground that it would not be advisable to do so until their old employes made re quests for cosiferences petition to mayor and chief owing to the failure to get a committee cf garment worker-s together no visit was paid to chief of police steward yesterday the meeting will be requested monday the labor leaders will then submit to the chief and also mayor b33sse a petition which is being circulated for signatures the subcommittee of the board of di rectors of the association of commerce continued its inquiry into the causes of the strike clara masilotti kebecca pol land and mrs sarah wolff explained the grievances of the garment workers a committee of cutters met the subcommit tee iv the afteruoou the strike bound employers aie expected ro be called be fore the committee monday or tuesday so far the committee is said to have found many divergent statements but comment upon them has been refused just what the hoard of directors will do with the information they are gathering is not yet determined the board will consider the information gained from all angles and if any purjiic good can be subserved it will issue a statement of its iiuuiu strikers fight among selves the strike will be considered by the Chicago federation of labor to-day while a large number of delegates threatened yes mrs c p Taft women to erect rival statues 100,000 each mrs c p Taft wants barnard to make lincoln memorial mrs alms chooses borglum cincinnati 0 dec 17 two statues of abraham lincoln one made by gut son borglum the english sculptor and one by george grey barnard the amer ican are to be built iv cincinnati each costing approximately 100,000 barnard announced to-day before he sailed for france that he has secured the backing of the lincoln memorial com mission of cincinnati and has a contract for this work gutzou borglum came to cincinnati to day and says he will build one and be paid by mrs frederick alms the whole matter rests with the 3*efusal of the com mission to name borglum mrs alms an nounced a year ago that she would give 1100,000 for a monument and left the mat ter of choosing the sculptor to a commis sion the men among whom are charles p Taft chose barnard then mrs alms said she did not want barnard but the con tract had been closed forthwith she asked borglum to come and close a contract mrs charles p Taft has said that if mrs alms does not care to stand by her argeement she will pay for the monument and has signed a contract with barnard to this effect homesick student weds wires for fiancee m california to continue studies ann arbor mich dec 17 walter c adams a michigan university fresh man from lodi cal got homesick so far from home recently he telegraphed miss grace pool also of lodi come at once miss pool did she arrived yesterday and adams had a marriage license waiting to-day he introduced his wife to his friends he will fiui*h the entire four years course at the university phonograph at funeral lexington ky dec 17.â€”phono graphic music supplanted singers at the funeral here to-day of mrs byron mc clelland widow of a widely known turf man and one of the wealthiest women m the south when near death mrs me clelland beard phonographic reproductions of sacred music by a quartet of noted singers and she requested that the ma chine be used at her funeral lord decies sails visits goulds jan 15 date of wedding guarded englishman coyly discusses i romance with miss vivien as he sips champagne new tork dec 17 1 sail to-night on the mauretania to teturn again on the loth of january the date for the wed ding that will all depend upon the er weather thus spoke lord decies to-day when during an interview that preceded his lordship's luncheon at sherry's he dis cussed his engagement to miss vivien gould this was a strenuous day for his lordship during the late forenoon he was paying oue of his farewell visits to the future lady decies then a rush to the drexel home at 1015 fifth avenue and from there to sherry's at 5 p m he started for the cunard line pier where seteral friends were gathered to bid him bon voyage although the engagement of lord decies and miss vivien gould the second daugh ter of george j gould was announced m a london newspaper a few days ago the interview of lord decies to-day was the first official statement given pertaining to the coming marriage coy about love affair the englishman was real coy about his love affair and when asked point blank to deny or affirm that he is to marry miss gould simply blushed and turned the con versation he is a tall well-built man with an air of culture genteel breeding and manliness even though as an officer m the british army he has gone through three cam paigns he seems as sprightly as a youth of twenty-five the dance and party scheduled for janu ary 19 at which mrs gonld probably in tended making the formal announcement of the engagement of her daughter vivien probably will take place he said but i see i am telling you things and i am as a gentleman and a true lover under the pledge of secrecy you must be content with just the announcement from me that i return on january 15 says rumor is amusing why should your newspapers and your hundreds of jolly people make so much of a poor british lord tour country is so vast your wealth so great and your men of culture so numerous that for mc just because i am here and rumor makes me the accepted of a daughter of one of the families of the american aristocracy is well â€” simply amusing to me â€¢â– â– â– â– i am nothing when placed beside some of the gentlemen i have met here i am one of a large set m england and my little trip to this country and if thc ru mors are correct â€” my engagement to miss gould should not make me the talk of the entire country i cannot see why american people and the american press cannot rest content with waiting for the official announcement of my engagement why do they persist you say it was the announcement m that london paper i want to say one word about that i cannot understand how that was published i wish to make no comment on it other than that i know not who was responsible tell your readers the entire story of my romance i will have to call for more champagne first did i sometimes tell the children of my experiences m the army perhaps you say you hare heard of my hardships m somaliland in the fighting of mad mullah m the long struggle m south africa perhaps i know stories of ad ventures that during these stirring days would befall aa officer m a regiment of hussars visit m january to be short it may hare been that sometimes i told miss vivien of my adventurous times but i must remind you that the fifth bottle of champagne has not as yet appeared and i refuse to tell of the romantic side of my . life , when i return m january the stay will . be only for a short time england will see me soon afterward but i hope the press of the country will treat me m as fair a . manner then as now i like america and second to my own country â€” which is the mother country to this great action l would like nothing better than to live here , lord decies is now lieutenant colonel m the seventh hussars he is a member of the distinguished service order and well liked m the army his full name is john graham hope horsley beresford fifth baron decies london gets velasquez famous portrait of philip iv of spain is bought for 400,000 london dec 17 the long lost equestrian portrait of philip iv of spain by velasquez which was recently dis covered at the duke of parma's residence at sch war zau austria is now m this city the agnews who bought it for 400,000 from the duke of parma claim and em inent experts confirm their claim that it is the original of the portrait m the dur wich gallery which has long been cata logued as a velasquez although some ex perts were of opinion that it was a copy by delmazo n y official is missing new york dec 17 n0 information co3tld be obtained at the office of city chamberlain hyde to-day as to bis where abouts all that could be learned was that he had left the city monday or tuesday either for Chicago on official business or for a duck shooting outing in the south at the offices of the legislative investi gating committee it was stated that no subpoena had been issued for hyde but the committee was still hopeful that he would voluntarily come forward and tes tify concerniug the handling of the 500 000 race track fund girl slain in street mob hunts assassin lynching is threatened ' mysterious beauty shot near aurora prominent man who left family suspected aurora lu dec 17.-a posse of ! farmers is m pursuit of w h mon*is a ' pi'omlnent piano man the alleged murderer of miss stella dumas twenty-four years old who was shot lo death m the maiu street of montgomery a subui-b of aurora to-night the murderer fled across country and is said to be hiding near riverview park two miles south of aurora threats of lynching are heard and the police of aurora are making every effort to arrest the murderer before the posse reaches him residents of montgomery were startled by three shots and a woman's scream shortly after r o'clock mayor nelson of the town and others rushed to their doors m time to see a man running across country towards riverview park the body of miss dumas fashionably gowned and bedecked with jewels was found lying face downward at the side of the street car tracks m the middle of the road she had been shot three times one bullet entering her forehead and the two others her chest morris infatuated with girl the police of aurora were notified of the murder and m the meantime a posse of farmers set out m search of the mur derer morris disappeared from his home more than a iweek ago leaving a wife and two children he was traced to aurora where the police learned to-day that he had be come infatuated with miss dumas a hand some young woman the police of aurora this morning set out m search of morris and the girl but they could not be located late this even ing it was learned however that they were at the riverview hotel m mont gomery the police were ready to start for montgomery when they were notified of the murder of the girl 150 check m girl's pocketbook miss dumas is said to have met morris when b.e was on a business trip to aurora daily visits from his home m piano to aurora could not be explained by his wife or business associates until this morn ing when it was lea3*ned of his infatuation for miss dumas it is believed that she jilted him to-night cairsing him to shoot her the police found a check for 150 1 m the murdered girl's pocketbook the oheck was made out by morris to miss dumas and is payable at the piano state bank the girl irho was slain was a person of mystery she claimed to friends to be a lineal descendant of alexander dumas the great french author but whence she came or where her parents lived if thy are alive she never revealed from ; papers found the police bellere she ured i at one0 ne time at pontiac j the murdered girl was a striking type of dark beauty and was always exquislte i ly gowned princess is buying gifts kaiser's only daughter does first christmas shopping alone special cable to the examiner berlin dec 17 princess victoria louise emperor william's only daughter is buying christmas gifts on her own ac count for the first time but the satisfac tion of choosing independently what she shall give is partly offset by the annoy ance of being pursued on her shopping tours by curious 03-owds at first she went to the stores without male escort but she found everybody iv berlin knows ber by sight and shoppers thrust upon her em barrassing attention and admiration so now her big brother eitel accompanies her to the christmas stores briton sought in u s new york dec 17 the police of this city have been asked to assist m the world search for the missing lieutenant frederick hesketh the son of sir thomas and lady fermer-llesketh of rufford hall lancashii-c england the son has been n*issing since october when he was seen at kingston ireland sir thomas married the daughter of the late seuator sharon of nevada the missing son mar ried miss florence breckenridge of ken tucky a few weeks before he disap peared a son was born to them g a r leader promoted rockford 111 dec 17.-j l ben nett of Chicago has been appointed by commander conley of the Illinois depart ment g a r as adjutant general to succeed the late c a partridge of chi cago judge finds meanest man new yohk dec 17 john lloyd was characterized as the meanest man m new york by magistrate krotel to-day lloj'd was accused by his wife of selling her only pair of shoes to buy a bucket of beer four are killed in wild west holdup by americans in london burglars fire on bluecoats m houns ditch attack interrupting raid on shop flee unharmed special cable to the examiner london dec 17 three policemen and oue unknown mau arc dead as the re sult of last nights attack by the police ov a gang of burglars engaged m tunnel ing from a neighboring house into a jew elry shop m houndsditch svhere they ex pected to reach booty valued at jloo.ooo the unknown dead man was found m a whitechapel bake shop to which he had been hurriedly conve.ved m a carriage shortly after the shootiug affray he is said by the police to have been one of the gang who shot down the three policemen se*v eral men and one woman found iv the bake shop m which the man died hate been arrested charged with complicity m the plot to rob the jewelry shop thc criminals are believed to be ameri cans and unerring gunplay was , never demonstrated better upou the plains of texas hounsditch is peopled largely by foreign ers with a number of luuerican residents shortly after midnight the community about the exchange building was ai'oused by a fusillade of shots and loud cries late pedestrians were astonished to see a battle raging about the exchange build ing bullets were rattliug like hailstones and the darkness of the night was punc tuated by brilliant flashes the officers discovered several men m the building shortly after midnight on ac i count of their numbers the police waited i for assistance and finally five of them en , tered the burglars started to shoot de spite the darkness their aim was deadly . and every one of the policeman was wounded one of the officers died m ; stantly the bm-glars fled and apparently all escaped injury each one had two pistols Chicago students airmen members of harvard aeronautical club boost aviation meet cambridge mass dec 17 aviation has been given a big boost at harvard through the perfecting of plans for the first college flying meet m history colum bia university will oppose the crimson next spring m a series of contests with gliders among the members of the harvard aeronautical society who have had much ito do with its success are william a dennis 11 Chicago heyliger dewindt 12 winnetka john weare harvard law school of Chicago and a e mauhcimer harvard law school of Chicago the tej*keted treasury of the society has recovered and the student aviators have secured new machines their roe triplane oought from the english aviator at the boston meet may be sent aloft during the coming meet eddy guards protected electric light and heat for watchers at science leader's bier boston mass dec 17 â€” zero weather m mt auburn cemetery m cambridge has no terrors for the four guardsmen vrtia are watching over the remains of mary baker eddy founder of christian science in the receiving tomb at the cemetery electric lights have been installed to gether with two large electric heaters thereby doing away with smoke or gas fumes two cots are also installed m the room or vault back of which the body rests the men take turns at sleeping and watching and also in going out to their meals beat shooting freshman minnesota students use straps on militant hazing victim minneapolis minn dec 17.â€”indig nant because a previous attempt at haziug resulted m the proposed victim drawing a revolver and firing shots enough over the heads of the crowd to scare its members away a dozen or more upper classmeu of the school of agriculture of the university late yesterday captured r w johnston 1869 selby avenue st paul m a corridor dragged him to the locker room and gave him a sound thrashing with bauds and straps johnston who is a freshman had defied the mandates of the upper classmen count szechenyi is shot cousin of gladys vanderbilt's hus band hunting victim special cable to the examiner vienna dec 17 count geza szechen yi first cousin of count i.aszio szechenyi who married gladys vauderbilt was ac cidentally shot while hunting on the estate of his brother count victor at surpen tele yesterday count lcdebur-wicheln count victor's brother-in-law one of the hunting party fired at a deer the load of small shot struck count geza whose condition is al most hopeless he is forty years of age and has three children dance to aid suffrage new york dee 17 music and danc ing became effective weapons of woman suffrage to-night when the political equality association headed by mrs o h p bel mont began its series of free dancing les sons and concerts to the shop girls and clerks of the east side about 500 per sons were m the club i-oonis when the en tertainment began a spirit of pure democ racy prevailed a number of society women serving as dancing teachers wins 435,000 at monaco special cable to the examiner monte carlo dec 17.-w darnbor ough au american m an attempt to bleak the bank has wou during the la*t week 485,000 at roulette biarritz dec 17 ex-vice president levi p morton is still here his health is excellent he goes out autoinobillug dally Illinois guard chief presses bill in both houses of congress providing 12,000,000 yearly appropriation for increasing the war footing of the country economically washington dec 17 â€” regarding rumor of his proposed resigna tion maid to have been published in new york secretary dickinson to-day said : such reports are absurd i have no idea of resigning washington dec 17 general edward c young of Chicago commanding jhe Illinois national guard is ln washington tak ing advantage of the war scare caused by the withdrawn report ot secretary dickinson to try to push through congress the new bill to increase the efficiency of the militia by giving the men part pay from the national treasury the enactment of the bill he claims will practically double the strength of the regular army and as chairman ot the executive committee of the national guard association he speaks for the militia of the whole country at a cost of 100 per man per year general young says the govern iment will have at its disposal at the breaking out of any war a national guard of 120,000 men ready to take the field and of twice the efficiency of the present state troops the bill he advocates proposes that the government pay the enlisted men of the national guard 2u per cent of what they would draw if they yere regular troops that the line officers be paid 15 per cent of what the regular officers of the same grades get with the exception of captains who are to get 20 per cent of the regulars pay and to give general officers and the men of their staff 5 per cent of the pay of reg ulars increase the duty to earn their money the enlisted men will have to attend forty-eight drills a year and officers must perform 75 per cent of their military duties the bill is pending ln both the house and the sedate the cost to the govern ment if it is passed will be about f4,g00 000 for the first year and the maximum cost after the state forces have been fully recruited is estimated at not to exceed 8,000,000 a year the government already gives 4,000,000 a year for arming and equipping the national guard so the pro posed cost for the 120,000 meu would not a exceed 12,000,000 a year the national guard bus gone as far n.jau it can with state aid alone said lioneij^b young and to make lt more efficient l men must be paid tor the loss of til the est ra work reouired would entai^^^b hem what we ask would dol lerijcieucy of the militia aua_j m \ best known fire fan robert edgecomb dead wealthy real estate dealer who bunked out every time a box struck in pneumonia victim chicago's foremost fire fan robert.edge comb is dead for many years he was one of the regulars who nightly gath ered at the quarters of hook and ladder company no li washington boulevard and clinton street and spun yarns and discussed the day's events between alarms of flre when a box struck m he always bunked out on it and notwithstanding his large size for he weighed it is said 373 pounds he was usuully one of the flrst to reach the tire recently mr edgecomb conti-acted pneu monia thursday evening he died and grief prevails m the fire department his dying request was that uniformed firemen be selected as his pallbearers he asked to be remembered to the boys his real estate holdings ou the west side ai-e said to be valued at almost half a million dollars burial will be m buffalo filibuster craft ready new orleans la dec 17.â€”boni la's agents are here fitting oul the con verted cruiser hornet for a filibustering expedition to honduras it sails monday continued on 4th pÂ«.ge 3d column gen young asks 0 s pay for militia to dooole fighting force noted military men agreed on present defenselessness of il s j -â€” v general wood's views r^â€”mmjaawat â– ' iâ€”ul^a 4 hpf 9 it is impossible to obtain a large wb '"' stock of war supplies on short notice bpjjjfc -&$? m and the time to act is now the gov m&s '- " : '*â– %_â– ernment should be enabled to purchase b 5 at once all supplies necessary to insure i gs_i?l t l that an y emergency may be met ' mam ftpli promptly and effectively he favors a ** ffis national council of defense as recom â– ^ s p-**-^-:^q !__ 3 y mended by representative hobson and jtbtfptycÃŸftg says that the united states should not â€” mn^u/rtfnizrs be behind any other government m pre general wood . paring for war s , . â– â– :*\ general grant says / fjjk w^*mmwk i our country is not prepared for war we need 1,000,000 men to de i k \ ien -- our coasts we need a larger â– 1 n standing army in case of war we syp fl would have to draft 600,000 men to de f *"**' mm "* en '** t " ae coasts > and properly to equip s jam them would take weeks the whole [ equipment would have to be rushed j^feyj^^^niÃŸ and it could not be done m time to â€” check the advance of the enemy this ,â€” s_Â£_sl is the situation we must consider and general grant ' there is no dodging it .\ â€” - â€” _. general chaffee says fh m "^Â° nat on on?ers more numerous ww :^ ' t-hi opportunities for invasion by a foreign nation than does the united states aw mwrn Â® ur mobile army is so ridiculously gy small m the world's war game that it by y_g b amounts to nothing better than a dis till 1 h card coast defenses are all iis-rht but pÃŸ^^gll when an enemy attempts to invade the 1 united states nothing short of mobile l**j_3 mfj armies can prevent the enemy's occupa 1 * r^rf _. -.*.' i7\v t o n Â°^ **** nes o supply and the quick ' c 3 \ capitulation of any city of first rank general chaffee plus its fortified places q3 h^g when roomers at mary mcseeker's move out she never sits down m a corner to pout ; she's right m the race and she knows how to win â€” an examiner ad makes more roomers move m used for rbsiil-ts the irafli^^paitttfler wants t thit you irast enter the Chicago examiner's great word picture contest 5,000-00 m prizes see page 5 of the real estate section â– â€” =- start to-day ===